Australia

Chinese textile exporter spends $120m on giant NSW cotton farm
- AFR
- 23 January 2023
The deal is the second $100 million-plus farming transaction involving offshore investors this year, highlighting the global appeal of prime Australian farmland.
$15b agriculture giant snaps up $71m Bundaberg macadamia orchard
- AFR
- 11 December 2022
Global agricultural investor Nuveen Natural Capital has joined a growing pool of institutional fund managers targeting Australia’s burgeoning macadamia sector, after buying one of the country’s largest orchards
New Zealand family buys 200-year-old Tassie farm Vaucluse for $100m
- AFR
- 28 November 2022
For Minneapolis-based Proterra Investment Partners, the sale represents a second lucrative exit in its agricultural funds, after it sold a 22,386-hectare cropping portfolio in Victoria and South Australia last year.
Canadian Mounties super fund snaps up Casella vineyards
- AFR
- 28 November 2022
A large Canadian pension fund which counts the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and defence force workers as members has acquired 35 vineyards in Australia from wine group Casella
Paine Schwartz buys up minority stake in Costa Group for $161m
- GAI
- 31 October 2022
Paine Schwartz has increased its stake in Australia’s top grower, packer, and marketer of fresh fruit and vegetables and owner of several blueberry farms in China and Morocco.
Australian Lamb Company sold to Minerva Foods Australia in $400 million deal
- News Achieve
- 25 October 2022
Minerva is 35% owned by the Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment Company, which already has 211,000 hectares of farmland and two mutton processing plants in Western Australia.
CEFC backs hybrid sustainable grazing model to cut emissions, deliver carbon credits
- CEFC
- 12 October 2022
The Australian government's Clean Energy Finance Corporation has committed up to $30 million to a carbon farming fund that seeks to expand its existing 100,000-acre landholding to 500,000 acres.
Australia: Expanding farming families spend big on livestock stations
- AFR
- 02 October 2022
Rising interest rates and higher production costs have failed to dent the appetite for prime livestock stations as demand from cashed-up farming families looking to expand outweighs a limited supply of properties for sale.
New Forests launches New Agriculture to buy global farmland
- Farm Online
- 07 September 2022
The $8.7 billion Sydney-based global investor and manager of nature-based property assets has formed New Agriculture to build a much bigger portfolio of agriculture assets.
Macquarie gathers Queensland croplands in $120m deal
- AFR
- 21 August 2022
Macquarie Asset Management is stepping up its investment in farmland, taking control of Cowal Agriculture, a cropping enterprise affiliated with US-based Global Endowment Management.
Huge foreign farmland investor fee hike stirs Labor agenda unease
- Farm Online
- 04 August 2022
Foreign investors in Australian rural property now pay up to $1 million in fees when applying to buy farmland or commercial agribusiness assets.
Aware Super sells Lake Boga farming portfolio to goFARM for approximately AU$30M
- GAI
- 02 August 2022
Comprising 38 organic, traditional, horticultural, and broadacre cropping farms, the Lake Boga assets are situated between Lake Boga and Kerang in northern Victoria.